Dear colleague!

I received your package with copies of "Pravda" and "Nevskaya Zvezda"* 82. I strongly request that you supplement it with the missing issues of the old "Zvezda" that I lack (you should have a list of these issues). If you do not have a list of the missing numbers we need, then inform me, and I shall send it to you at once.

I also received your detailed letter* regarding collaboration. We shall endeavor to fulfill what we can from your very extensive program. It is necessary, however, to emphasize once again that it is absolutely impossible to continue work without the sending of:

(1) money. The office already owes 200 rubles, which were supposed to have been sent: 100 rubles on June 1st, old style, and 100 rubles on June 15th. It is necessary to hasten payment of this debt and to send funds punctually on the designated dates, as was agreed.

(2) - it is necessary to send new books, reference publications, etc. Without the sending of new books, even a tenth part of your program of collaboration is impossible to fulfill. In my previous letter I already sent a list of books and request that you reply whether all of it will be sent.

* Your letter bears the postmark of 18. VI. But we still do not have "Nevskaya Zvezda" from 17. VI!! Please see to it that dispatch is carried out punctually.